By EMMA MILLER BOLENIUS, A. M. Author of "The Teaching of Oral English" and "Teaching Literature" THIS HIS IS A NEW BOOK of very special merit. It is a thoroughly commonsense course, full of life and force. Its well-knit organization and its wealth of material make the teacher's work easy. Oral English receives unusual attention. Letter-writing is taught so effectively that the pupil's ability to write a good letter-business or friendly—is assured. The following topics suggest the live atmosphere and practical scope of the book: Improving the Speaking Voice; How to Learn to Converse; How to Get Ideas; How to Tell a Story; Making Letters Interesting; Details that Identify; Organizing Ideas; How to Get Facts; Making Ideas Stand Out; Using Words Precisely; The Effective Paragraph; Placing Modifiers Correctly. The book fits the needs of Junior High Schools and the first two years of regular high schools. Hamilton's Standard Arithmetics (A Three-Book HAMILTON'S ARITHMETICS were first published in 1908. Success attended them from the start and today they are in use in nearly 7,000 school systems of counties, cities, towns and villages. This NEW series is built on the seasoned foundation of the old. SIMPLICITY, CLEARNESS OF TREATMENT, THOROUGHNESS, PRACTICALITY, ORAL WORK and ADMIRABLE GRADING are the qualities which distinguish this series. These books conform to recent developments in teaching and to present conditions of living. In every case their problems have been chosen because of their UTILITY in business and everyday life. a THE WEEK IN REVIEW VICTORY FOR THE LIBERTY The Zeppelins were returning from government moved to Bordeaux in The chief interest of the week has centred in the great popular "drive" for the second Liberty Loan. The history of the first loan has been repeated. Now, as then, the subscriptions came in with disappointing slowness in the first two weeks; then came days of deep depression and gloomy forebodings as to the impression which would be made at home and abroad by the failure of the loan; and the:: the enthusiasm and exhilaration of the closing days when subscriptions mounted up by the hundreds of millions and the whole country was aroused as never before. As early as Thursday morning, three days before the time limit was reached, it became clear that the three billion minimum limit had been passed and the only real question was how far the loan would be over-subscribed. It was a splendi demonstration of patriotism and national purpose concentrated to see the war through to a victorious end at whatever cost. A CRUSHING ITALIAN DEFEAT. The combined Austro-German armies, under the immediate command of Emperor Charles, with Field Marshal von Mackensen as his chief assistant, have inflicted a crushing defeat upon the Italians. They have broken through the Italian lines; driven back General Cadorna's forces from the heights which were Won by protracted and strenuous fighting; have retaken the Austrian town of Gorizia, the capture of which in August, 1916, was one of the most brilliant successes of the Italian advance; and have taken the Italian town of Cividale. They have taken more than 100,000 prisand than 700 guns. The second and third Italian armies were forced to retreat; the second army being completely broken in spirit, retreating and surrendering without giving battle just as the Russians did in Galicia. It is an overwhelming catastrophe to Italy: and taken in connection with the Russian demoralization. it is tile heaviest blow which the Allied cause has suffered since the opening of the war. Incidentally it indicates that the United States will have to increase its war activities to an extent not before realized. oners more A NEW FRENCH DRIVE. In a swift and evidently unexpected movement, the French troops have smashed through the German lines north of the Aisne to a depth of more than two miles at one point, inflicting heavy losses, capturing more than 7,500 prisoners, and taking twenty-five heavy guns and field guns. Three villages and several quarries and forts remained in their possession. Another brilliant and significant French success is the bringing to earth of five German Zeppelins of the newest type. each of them measuring 650 feet. and carrying a crew of twenty men. One of them was burned. and the crew, horribly mutilated, buried in the ruins. The others were destroyed, and the crews taken prisoners. IN THE NORTH SEA. The ruthlessness of German war- THE SPIRIT OF MUTINY. November 1, 1917 they surrendered in order to enlist nia. They were all Jugoslavs, and in the Jugoslav legion now being formed out of the reorganized Serbian army. FAIR PLAY FOR THE NEGRO. An encouraging indication that the color of a man's skin is no longer to debar a proper recogniof the War Department in ordertion of his patriotism is the action ing the commissioning of 684 coltions. These men are graduates of ored aspirants for officers' posithe so-called "colored Plattsburg" ground for the conviction at Fort Des Moines. There is no which seems hitherto the policy of the War Department to have prompted that negro troops will do good service only when commanded by clusively in the fighting on white officers. It was shown conthe Mexican border, not only that negro soldiers could fight bravely, but that colored officers could lead them well. An instance in point was the conduct of the Tenth CavYoung, a colored graduate of West alry, under its lieutenant-colonel Point, in the fighting against Villa. THE SHIPPING PROBLEM. The American shipping problem is by no means yet solved, but it is on the way to solution. 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Only three years ago the South was sending out cries of distress because a bumper cotton crop coincided with a market which ha been smashed by war uncertainties. Now, with cotton bringing four times as much as in 1914, the South is quite serene in its mind. But, meanwhile, it has learned the longneeded lesson of the folly of relying upon one crop for its prosperity. The cotton acreage dropped from 37,400,000 in 1914 to 32,100,000 in 1915; and, although it rose to 35.994,000 in 1916, it fell off about 3.5 per cent. this year. Meanwhile. the acreage of corn. cats, wheat, and grass and other forage crops has greatly increased, and the crops are bringing high prices. The advantage of diversfied farming is at last recognized. Rules of Publication Date of Expiration.-The date on the label of your paper indicates the time when your subscription expires. Discontinuances.-Subscriptions are not discontinued at their expiration. 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Not to know East Texas is not to know the vast land of the Tejas Indians, for whom the Empire of Texas is named, and in all the years that I have known the state I had only known East Texas by skidding through it on the Texas Pacific railroad until September, 1917, when J. C. Ingram arranged for me to spend a day in each of five counties-Houston, Trinity, Walker, Angelina, and Nacogdoches which gave me a chance to know the heart and soul, as well as the spirit and soil of historic East Texas. All over East Texas are sawmills slicing from logs 100,000 to 150,000 feet of lumber a day. At Trinity we roamed among the lumber piles and climbed about the machines that have learned to do double duty by having two-faced band saws cutting both going and coming. East Texas is one vast forest with grand groves of oak that rival those of the Coast Range of California, with forests of primeval pines and firs which were certainly "God's first temples" as poets sing. "Red Land Empire" is destined to be one of the greatest fortune makers of all America. Here is a Yankee guess that land that can now be bought for five dollars an acre will pay ten per cent. on the investment in cattle or cotton until it can be sold for fifty dollars an acre for pigs, peanuts and potatoes. Five dollars is more than the red land is worth for the raising of hookworms and one exhausting crop poorly cared for, while fifty dollars is cheap when every child has shoes to defy the pestilent hookworm and enterprising men raise three big crops a year, oats, peanuts, and potatoes-the peanuts enriching the soil more than the oats and potatoes exhaust it. Nacogdoches is certainly "the most interesting city in Texas" as the boasters and boosters say, with good reason. And it is no relic, as some ancient landmarks are, but a captivating city full of romance and heroism in its traditions, and enterprise in its activities, as all East Texas cit es realize that competed with it for location of the new East Texas Normal School. Nacogdoches is the oldest city in all Texas. Here the famous "Republic of Texas" was cradled, A. E. WINSHIP, Editor for here the Big Four of the Republic of Texas lived when patriotism was germinating in their veins: Stephen F. Austin, Sam Houston, Davy Crockett, and Hayden Edwards. These were indeed the Big Four, for they gave to Nacogdoches the name of "Mother of Revolutions." Here still stands the Old Stone Fort, famed in history because here Davy Crockett held the Old. Stone Fort when he refused to sign the oath of allegiance to Mexico. Over this fort have been flung to the breeze the flag of France, of Spain, of Mexico, of the Republic of Texas, of the Southern Confederacy, and of the United States. No other fort in America has been the defender, in fact or theory, of six nations. Santa Anna was on his way at the head of a loyal Mexican army to crush the rebels of Nacogdoches when San Houston put a quietus to his hope at San Jacinto. Nacogdoches-pronounce it nach-o-do-shes with the accent on the "do" with a long "o"-was the chief camp-fire village of the Tejas Indians who reigned supreme in these principal forests, diverting to Indian Territory by their superiority the onward march of the Cherokees as they were sent Westward when the march of civilization took possession of their Georgia hunting grounds. Later Nacogdoches became "the gateway" to Texan-Mexico when the Spaniards built "El Camina Real," the "King's Highway," the "Old San Antonio Road" from Natchitoches in Louisiana. through San Antonio to Old Mexico. No one went from the Mississippi Valley to Old Mexico except through Nacogdoches. All trails of trappers and traders, pioneers and priests, led through Nacogdoches, so that the saying is traditional, as of ancient Rome, "All roads lead to Nacogdoches." The first white settlement in the Tejas Indian territory was here when, in 1778, Gil Y' Barbo built the Old Stone Fort, and a Mission was established by Spanish priests. In Nacogdoches the first Protestant sermon ever preached on Texas soil was delivered, and here was built the first Protestant church, so that it has been the cradle of Texas Catholicism and Protestantism. Here also in 1845 the University of Nacogdoches was founded under a Texas charter, and lands and moneys were given by Stephen F. Austin, Sam Houston and others, so that the public high school has a beautiful campus of fifteen acres, the old University building, to which have been added two other fine buildings partly paid for from the "University funds." Nacogdoches' latest achievement is the winning |